Baling-press



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No. 394,662. Patented Dec. 18. 1888.

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Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

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No. 394,662. Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

w WN v .N w M R 8 .v 8 K 8 i To aZZ whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB PRICE, OF SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,662, dated December 18, 1888.

Application filed June 23, 1888. Serial No. 278,047. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JACOB PRICE, of San l and which is opened automatically by the folwith a feed opening or well, and with a door which may be closed when the well is full and Leandro, Alameda county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Baling- Presses; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same' My invention relates to certain improvements in horizontal baling-presses; and it 0011- sists in the constructions and combinations of devices which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

Figure 1 is an exterior perspective view of the complete press. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken through the press-box, showing one end and a part of the other, and an intermediate mechanism by which the fol lower is reciprocated, and a part of the swinging pole or lever by which this mechanism is actuated. Fig. 8, Sheet 2, is an interior view of a portion of the press-box, showing the ribs a, the end of the follower, and the retainers upon one side of the box to prevent the hay from springing back after being compressed. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken through the feed-opening and door of one end of the press, showing the latch, the weight and lever for opening the door, and the bar on the top of the follower, by which the latch is disengaged. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a part of one end of the feed-box, the

latch, the top of the follower, and the bar by which the latch is disengaged. Fig. 6 is a view of one of the doors through which the 1 completed bale is removed, showing the latching and holding device. Fig. 7 is an outline horizontal section showing the crank which actuates the follower at right angles with the press and in mid-stroke. Fig. 8 is an elevation of the cranks and their connections.

Similar letters of reference in each of the drawings indicate like parts.

My press is of that type known as a horizontal press, and is mounted upon wheels, so as to be easily transported from place to place. It has a central double-headed follower and mechanism for reciprocating the same, so that each end of the follower acts alternately to compress the hay in its end of the press-box. Eachof these ends of the press is provided lower after the hay has been forced beyond the feed-opening and before the follower returns.

A is the press-box, which is of sufficient length to admit of a bale being pressed in each end by the action of the double-ended reciprocating follower B B. The press-box is mounted upon wheels C C for convenience in transportation, the press-box resting upon the axles between the two pairs of wheels. As it is necessary to remove the completed bales from the side of the press, the wheels must be set so far toward the center from each end as to be out of the way of the doors closing the openings through which the bales are to be removed.

D is the pole to which the team is attached for the purpose of hauling the press from place to place, and E is a bar through which the king-bolt passes to pivot it to the front of the press, this bar being connected with the rear end of the pole-frame, so that the two turn together, as shown in Fig. 1, or the crossbar at the rear of the pole may be pivoted directly to the press. In order to turn the axle of the wheels C simultaneously with the turning of the pole, I employ the links or rods F, which extend from the pivoted bar E or the rear of the pole to the axle of the wheels C, being connected by pins to the bar and the axle, respectively. The axle having a kingbolt attaching its center to the press and about which it turns, it will be manifest that when the pole is turned to one side or the other the axle will participate in this motion, and the wheels will thus be turned so as to direct the press to either side, as may be desired. By this construction I am enabled to place the wheels so far from the end of the press that they will not interfere with the opening and closing of the doors G, through which the bale is removed after being pressed.

The doors Ur open upon the sides of the press near the end, swinging upon hinges, and they are locked by means of small projecting lugs H upon the end of the U-shaped latch I, which turns upon a stout hinge-pin, J, passing through the plates K, which are strongly bolted to the outer edge of the door. \Vhen the latch I is turned so as to stand approxi- T, of the feed hopper or well.

mately at right angles with the door, the lugs II are withdrawn from v the sockets in the timber L of the press, and the door will then be free to open. \Vhen the door is closed and the latch I is swung against the side of the door, lying parallel with it, as shown in Figs. 1 and 6, the outer end of the curved portion of the latch is held in place by a lever, M,

which is fulcrumed upon the side of the doortimbers, and has its upper end formed into a handle, as shown at N, by which to operate it. When the door is closed, the lever is pushed forward, so that the lever engages a lug upon the latch I, and thus holds it in place. When it is desired to open the door, the lever is drawn back, the locking-lugs are disengaged, and the latch swings around to its position nearly or quite at right angles with the door, thus withdrawing the lockinglugs H and allowing the door to swing open for the discharge of the bale.

0, Fig. 1, is a platform upon which hay may be deposited from the stack.

P P are the feed hoppers or wells, into which the hay is alternately pitched from the platform 0, these openings being sufliciently near each other so that one man can attend to both.

Q are the doors, hinged within the hoppers or receivers P and closing downward about their hinges after the press-box below them has been sufliciently filled with hay for a charge. These doors are closed by hand or foot as soon as the box is sufficiently full, and are retained by latches R, which prevent their being forced open while the follower is passing beneath them to compress the charge in that end of the box. The latchR engages the arm S, which is attached to the door Q, and which projects through a slot in the end plate, The latch R is upon the upwardlyprojecting end of a bellcranklever, as shown plainly in Fig. 5, and is held in engagement with the arm S by a spring, U. hen the follower B has passed far enough beneath the feed box or receiver P to have forced the charge which was introduced through this box into the end of the press-box, the latch R is disengaged from the arm S by means of thelug or incline V, which is secured upon the upper one of the two beams R which connect the two followers, at such a point that it will strike the lower end of the latch-lever R when the head of the follower has reached a proper point,as above described. The lever S being released from the latch, the door Q is opened automatically by means of the weight IV, fixed upon the en d of the lever Y, which is fulcrumed to a standard, as shown at Z. In order to allow the movement of the door Q and the lever-arm Y on their independent fulcrums or hinges, a joint is made in the lever at Y, which enables the lever to fold and shorten itself as the door is opened, as shown in Fig. 1.

' \Vhen the hay is thrown into the receiver or well, it falls down in the box until the latwithin easy reach of the driver.

ter is sufiiciently full, and the hay is kept at about an even density from top to bottom by means of projecting ribs or flanges a in the side of this portion of the press, as shown in Figs. 2 and When a charge is pressed into the end of the press-box A, it is prevented from returning by its own elasticity after the withdrawal of the follower by the retainers l), which are in the form of hooks fulcrumed in the sides of the press-box, so that they will, fold back to allow the hay to pass, but will immediately spring out and prevent its returning. The follower is alternately forced to one end or the other of the press-box by means of the cranks c c. There are two of these cranks on the ends of the common vertical shaft 0 inthe center of the press and in an exact vertical plane, as shown in Figs. 2 and 7. To the upper crank, c, is attached the link 13 and the pitman (Z, extending to the top of the follower B, while to the lower crank, c, is attached the link 8 and the pitman (1, extending to the bottom of the follower B. The dotted lines in Fig. 2 show the cranks in another position.

In order to turn the cranks c c,which make a half-revolution,to one side and the other of the central shaft, I employ a power-lever, e, which is pivoted or fulcrumed at f by means of a stout upright shaft supported upon suit able frame-work at one side of the press and opposite the crank-shaft. This leverehas its outer end provided with any. suitable mechlevers are bent, as shown at i, so as to approach closely to the top and bottom, respectively, of the lever 6. Above and below the lever e are the two arms or stops j and k, which are rigidly fixed to a pin or shaft which extends through the lever 6. These two stops j, and k are fixed to the pin, so as to be moved together.

Eachof the levers g and 71. has a projection or lug, Z, and when the stops j and k are turned to one side the end of one of the stops will engage with the corresponding lug of its camleverg, while the end of the other stop will be turned clear of the lug Z, so as to leave the cam-lever h free to swing upon the fulcrumshaft f, independent of the movement of the cam-lever g, The changes of position of the stops j and 7c are effected by a T- shaped hand-lever, m, which is fulcrumed near the outer end of the power-lever 6, so as to be A connecting-rod, n, extends from the lever m to the swinging stops j and It, so thatby turning the end lever, on, to one side or the other the position of the stops j and k is reversed.

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The outer end of the crank c is connected with the long arm of the cam-lever g by means of a triple link, p, the parts of which are jointed together at q and r. A similar triple link, 3 t it, connects the lower cam-lever, h, with its crank c, which is in line below the upper one. The cam-lever g, when engaged by the stop 3', acts through its link 19 to pull the crank 0 around a half-revolution, when the power-lever e is turned a half-revolution, and this cam-lever 9 being released from its stop j by means of the hand-lever m and mechanism above. described, the lower lever, 71, is then engaged by the stop 7:, and through its connecting-links, which are precisely similar to those shown at p, the crank c is turned around in the opposite direction a half-revolution.

Fig. 2 shows the power-lever 6 turned so as to extend parallel with the left end of the press-box, and the movements of the cranks and the follower have been completed, so that the right end of the follower has compressed a charge in the right end of the box. (Not shown in this figure.) The stop j still remains engaging the lug l of the cam-lever g, (by which it has been forced to move with the pole e.) The first portion of the movement of the cranks c is rapid, by reason of the connecting-links I) being operated by the longest arm of the cam-lever g and by reason of the short purchase which is had upon the crank-shaft 0 when the movement first begins. This short leverage is more plainly shown in Fig. 2 by the position of the connecting-links 3,15, and a, which lead from the lower crank, c, to the lower cam-lever, h. It will be seen that the link 8, connecting with the outer end of the crank 0, extends inwardly to its hub or inner end near or quite parallel with the crank, and is there jointed to the second link, I, which in turn is jointed to the link it.

The only power that can be applied when the movement first commences is the direct pull of the two links it and 2 upon a point very near the shaft or fulcrum about which the crank c turns, and this causes a rapid movement of the cranks c c and the correspondingly rapid movement of the connecting-rods d d and the follower B. The upper cam-lever, g, having been released from its stop j, is

at liberty to swing rapidly about its fulcrumpin f, upon which it turns loosely, as above described. This movement of the crank acts through the links p to swing the cam-lever g around, the links 1) unwinding, as it were, with considerable rapidity.

\Vhen the power-lever c has been moved to such a point that the cranks c are nearly at right angles with the body of the press, the joints between the links If and u will be brought into contact with the angle c of the cam-lever 72, and the rapidity of movement of the crank c is very much decreased on account of the shortening of the lever, which is now acting to draw the crank around, this lever now being represented by the distance between the fulcrum-shaft f and the angle 2,

instead of the distance from f to the outer end the link 3 will act to pull directly upon the outer end of the crank, the links extending from the outer end of the crank to the point 20 of the cam-lever h, which thus exercises a direct pull upon the crank while it is finishing its half-revolution, and this draws it into a position in line with its pitman (I, the two acting as a knee-lever to force the follower outward with the greatest power just as the hay is most compressed. The position which the cam-lever occupies at the completion of the crank-stroke and the relative position of the connecting-links by which the power is applied are best shown in Fig. 2 by the upper cam-lever, g, and its links 1).

In this press the length of the bale is equal to the depth of the press from top to bottom, its other dimensions being represented by the inside width of the press and the length between the follower and the end.

The operation willbe as follows: The feeder standing upon the platform 0, the follower and its attachments being at the extreme end of the stroke in one position, the door of the feed-well at the opposite end will be open, and hay is thrown into the well until it is full. The feed-door is then closed and the latch R will hold it, and the horse being started carries the power-lever 6 around its semicircular track, and through the mechanism just described the follower is forced to the end of the press, thus compressing the hay which is held by the retainers b. lVhile this is going on the feeder turns to the other end, the well of which is now opened by the action of the follower, and fills that, closing the feed-door Q, as before. By this time the horses have been reversed on the lever, and the feed-door at the end first described having been opened automatically by the mechanism previously described this end is ready to receive another charge, and may again be tilled. This process is repeated until there are, for example, three charges in one end, which will complete the bale, and two in the other end, and the driver may leave the horses and assist the bale-piler to tie the completed bale, the ropes or wires having been placed in position while the different charges were being pressed in the usual manner. The tying of the bale takes but afew seconds, and while this is being done the third charge for the other bale is being put in by the feeder. The instant the first bale is tied the horses are started and it is discharged, and, the last charge being pressed in the opposite end, the other bale will be ready to be tied While this is being done the empty end, of the press receives its first charge for the second bale, and so the process is continued without loss of time.

By the peculiar arrangement of the mechanism for actuating the follower the latter may be given a long travel and moved at considerable speed during the first portion of its travel when power is not necessary and the wvhole power of the team is concentrated at ing it with the follower, in combination with the double cam-levers g and h and the jointed connecting-rods uniting said levers with the moving end of the crank upon opposite sides thereto, substantially as herein described.

- 2. A double horizontal press and the doubleheaded reciprocating follower, with the cranks c, fixed upon the upright shaft between the uniting-timbers of the follower, in combination with the cam-levers g and h, fulcrumed, respectively, above and below the power-lever e, the stopsj and k, by which said cam-levers are alternately engaged and actuated'by the power-lever e, and the jointed links 19, connecting the upper lever, g, with the upper crank, and the jointed linkss, t, and u, connecting the lowerlever, h, with'its crank, substantially as herein described.

3. The double-ended press with the doubleheaded follower with the intermediate uniting-timbers, the cranks c, fixed upon an upright shaft turning bet-Ween said timbers and connected, respectively, with the cam-levers g and h by jointed links, in combination with the pole or power-lever e, to which the camlevers g and h are fulcrumed, the stops j and k, by which these levers are alternately engaged and disengaged, the T-lever m, and the connecting-rods n, by which the stops are shifted, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. 1

' JACOB PRICE.

lVitnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, H. 0. LEE. 

